It's an attempt to be cool and get away with something by manipulating everyone.

Obama's not sorry. Otherwise he'd actually say he is. He must use words like "I'm sorry" or "I apologize" and make it clear that it's for smearing the police officer, and he can't "qualify" the apology by blaming the media for "making a big deal". Of course he knew they'd make a big deal; that's what they do, help politicians like the ultra-leftist Obama play the race card. If Obama's truly sorry, he'd say so without qualification and admit that he "made a big bad" and personally "acted stupidly", because it's what he did. Besides, "acted stupidly" is a stupid thing to say, as opposed to more proper grammar, such as, say, "behaved in a stupid manner". In other words, Obama's the stupid one and he's projecting, just as his buddy the professor's the unhingedly paranoid racist one and is projecting his own racist mentality onto Sgt. Crowley and on all police in America.

"Because this has been ratcheting up and I helped contribute to ratcheting it up, I want to make clear that in my choice of words I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sgt. Crowley specifically and I could have calibrated those words differently."

"My sense is you've got two good people in a circumstance in which neither of them were able to resolve it the way the wanted to resolve it," Obama added.

Obviously, someone told him to say that. No way are those Obama's words.

The only words that could be considered Obama's are a clear indication as to whether he's sorry and that the apology/non-apology be directed to the police officer he smeared.

He claimed he didn't mean to "malign" the police or Sgt. Crowley specifically (notice that he mentioned Crowley second, after indicating all of the police department.

I'm sure Obama is pleased with the damage he's done, for that's the whole idea of making the smears in the first place.

Just wait for the real racists to attack the black officer who supports his co-worker against the unhinged, paranoid-racist buddy of Obama. The Left always demonizes anyone it feels is an inconvenient threat to THE AGENDA.